Analysis: Freight Payment Index Offers Helpful Regional Benchmark
If you want to know how your trucking operation is stacking up against other freight shipping businesses, there is a new barometer available, U.S. Bank’s Freight Payment Index, and it offers some features that have not been seen before, says business contributing editor Evan Lockridge in his December Hotline column.
Daseke adds three trucking companies to balance fleet
The immediate addition of Tennessee Steel Haulers & Co. makes Daseke more asset-light in its fleet mix. Photo credit: TSH.
Specialized trucking company Daseke is adding companies to its fast-growing family but it’s going light on assets,…
Rainier Truck Targets 2018 Launch
Rainier Truck & Chassis, LLC, announced that it is set to reboot sales and products with a target production launch of summer 2018 for its Class 4-5 and Class 6-7 truck models.
Optronics Expands Opti-Brite LED Headlamp Series
Optronics International has expanded its Opti-Brite LED Headlamp product lineup, adding a new five-by-seven-inch, combination high-and low-beam headlamp.
‘They better start listening to us’: Brian Babin reiterates need for executive order to delay ELDs
A talk with Congressman Brian Babin, who reiterates need for an ELD delay executive order from Trump if truckers are to get relief at this point from the mandate. More on yesterday’s media-outreach efforts from truckers — results.
Fleet ordered to pay $3 million after pushing tired drivers on ‘grossly illegal’ routes
Beam Trucking drivers were told to drive “routes that were so long that they barely got any sleep between trips for weeks at a time over a course of years.” One driver admitted to taking bath salts every few hours to stay awake, according to the U.S. A…
ELDs, Truck Drivers, and the Power of a Hashtag
If the hashtag #MeToo was able to change the national conversation about sexual harassment, could #ELDorMe have the same kind of power for drivers protesting mandatory electronic logging devices? Read more in All That’s Trucking blog.
Daseke Adds Three More Flatbed and Specialized Carriers
Tennessee Steel Haulers & Co., The Roadmaster Group, and Moore Freight Service have all joined flatbed and specialized transportation company Daseke, the company announced.
Truck and traffic
MONTREAL, Que. –Shorter trucks, restricted delivery hours, forbidden zones, and ways to help truckers better see pedestrians and cyclists are part of a buffet of possible changes Montreal is considering to improve safety and traffic fluidity. Last year, the City…
ELD Day
As the clock counts down to the Dec. 18 electronic logging device mandate in the U.S., many fleets have yet to implement a solution